MediaBox Media Center Release Notes
New in release 0.96.5 (03 Jun 2009)
Support for LRC file format for music lyrics
Slideshow in the image viewer
Special lists "50 Recently Played" and "Bookmarked Files"
Sleep and wake up timer (fall asleep and wake up with music or FM radio)
Rewind and fast forward
Shuffle and repeat modes can be switched by clicking the status bar icons
Improved UI rendering performance and reduced memory footprint
Improved search feature with skipping to next and previous results
Cleaner user interface
Thumbable scrollbar
Translucent dialog screens
Reduced startup time
mplayer backend doesn't intercept key presses anymore
Plugin compatibility API bumped to 1.1
Support for reference nodes in UPnP content directories
Bugfixes
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New in release 0.96.4 (06 Mar 2009)
Browse music by genre
Improved UI rendering performance
Advanced list navigation with slide effects and remembering last position
Fixed some media indexing bugs
Downscaling of hi-res videos for smoother playback in the mplayer backend
Display can be kept lit while playing media
Headset button gestures (1x: PLAY/PAUSE, 2x: NEXT, 3x: PREVIOUS) in the maemo
input schema
Small workaround to get smoother video playback with mplayer on maemo
Option in the media scanner preferences to reset thumbnail previews and have
them generated again
Command line options for disabling plugins
Plugin compatibility API bumped to 1.01
Bugfixes
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New in release 0.96.3 (18 Jan 2009)
Back button closes embedded album listing.
"All Tracks" option in artists view for listing all tracks belonging to an
artist at once
Configuration option for changing the player backend per media format
Revised mediaplayer backend implementation making creation of new backends
easier
New experimental player backend for GStreamer
Thumbnails and the ID tag cache are stored on the medium where the associated
files are located
Fixed bug that stopped thumbnailing after an error
Use insanely high number for parameter RequestedCount when browsing UPnP
server in order to retrieve all items even from UPnP servers misinterpreting
the RequestedCount part in the ContentDirectory specification (fixes ORB)
Fixed bug that broke compatibility with Microsoft's UPnP media servers
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New in release 0.96.2 (03 Jan 2009)
Loading themes from ~/.mediabox/themes doesn't raise an exception anymore
Smoothly animated zooming in the image viewer
Preloading the next image in the background in the image viewer
Configuration option for keeping the display light on
Refuse thumbnailing or loading of images with more than 8 megapixels
Caching of UPnP directory server listings
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New in release 0.96.1 (30 Dec 2008)
Playlist gets saved after reordering
Fixed bug where after removing items a list gets stuck and cannot be scrolled
anymore
Made indexing behavior less optimistic to avoid dead entries
Albums can be closed in the folder view
Adding an image folder to a playlist adds its contents
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New in release 0.96 (28 Dec 2008)
Instant theme switching without the need to restart
New plugin architecture for extending MediaBox
Folder-based browsing
UPnP framework and UPnP AV support
Media bookmarking per file
Shuffle & repeat
Playlist editor and playqueue
Search-as-you-type with finger-friendly on-screen keyboard
File indexing with inotify kernel support and tag-based browsing
Car-mode for easy controlling while driving (play/pause, previous, next)
Bugfixes
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New in release 0.95 (05 May 2008)
Playlist editor with support for drag-sorting
Huge memory and speed optimizations (folders with several hundred songs load
without problems)
Music tracks are sorted by track number if available
Search-as-you-type for title text in albums and playlists (for models with
a keyboard)
Revised UI based on user suggestions
Bugfixes
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New in release 0.94.2 (21 Feb 2008)
Fixed integer bug in gconf-workaround module (which is used where gconf
Python bindings are unavailable due to a packaging bug in pymaemo)
Fixed bug in theme selector touch sensitivity
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New in release 0.94.1 (19 Feb 2008)
Added support for non-UTF-8 text encodings in ID3 tags
FM radio stops playing when playing other media
Slightly smoother video playback with mplayer
Fullscreen video no longer grabs input
MediaBox no longer hangs at startup after clearing the media collection
Bugfixes
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New in release 0.94 (10 Feb 2008)
Improved caching in media scanner to further minimize scanning time
Theme enhancements
Media folders can now be filtered by media content types
Automatic detection of memory card replacement (scans for new media)
Support for the button on the headset (pause/play)
Loudspeakers can be switched on for FM radio
Support for reading FLAC tags
Alternative media player backend for the osso-media-server adds support for
more media formats (such as real media and MP4)
Bugfixes
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New in release 0.93 (24 Jan 2008)
Highly improved media scanner for quick scanning and quick startup.
Support for various ID3 tag versions (v1, v2.2, v2.3, v2.4).
Support for album art embedded in ID3 tags.
High-performant GDK-based rendering engine for a responsive UI and
more transition effects.
Buttons for skipping and zooming in the image viewer.
Enhancements in the default theme.
Application icon now is the proper size on OS 2008.
Bugfixes